Detachable can-holder.



No. 679,742. Patented Aug. 6, |90l. W. H. GUDDARD.

DETACHABLE 4CAN HOLDER.

(Application filed Dac. 14, 1 900.)

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WILFRED I-I. GODDARD, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

DETAGHAB LE CAN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 679,742, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed December 14, 1900. Serial No. 39,882. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Beit known that I, WILERED H. GODDARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chelsea, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Detachable Can-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved holder applicable to and combined with a milk-can of any usual material, preferably glass.

My improved holder is represented as composed of a piece of wire, preferably one piece bent to form a closed and an open loop, the

closed loop embracing the body of the can and the open loop the neck of the can, the open loop being made to hug the neck of the can by or through a device represented as embracing the part of the wire of the holder which is adapted to be grasped by the hand, said device being shown as a loop which may be slid on the handle part of the holder between the closed and the open loop.

Figure 1 in perspective shows a can with my improved holder applied thereto. Fig. 2 shows the holder detached and open in its inoperative position.

`Referring to the drawings, A represents a milk-can supposed to be of glass, and B represents the holder.

The holder is composed of a piece of wire having at one end an eye b, the wire beyond said eye being bent into circular shape to constitute a loop b', the wire being passed through the eye b and having a rather sharp bend and being extended upwardly, as at b2, it. being again bent, as at b3, into a circular eye to constitute an open loop b4, the wire at the opposite end of said loop having another bend, as b5, and thereafter the portion b of the wire is extended through the eye b and its end is turned to embrace said eye. Bending the wire of a single piece, as herein shown, in the manner represented, as in Fig. 2, constitutes a holder having an open loop b4 and a closed loop b', and the portion b6 constitutes a handle. I have shown the handle portion b2 b as surrounded by device c, represented as a loop of wire, it, when the holder is made, occupying the position shown in Fig. 2.

These holders are madein quantities and may be readily applied to the can and as readily detached when necessity requires.

To apply a holder in the condition, Fig. 2, the closed loop will first be passed over the muth of the can, and finally the open loop will be passed over the mouth of the can to a point below the bulge a, constituting the end of the can, or to a point where the open loop will embrace the neck a of the can. In this condition, with the closed loop embracing the main part of the body of the can, the person applying the holder to the can-body will slide the device o upwardly over the handle parts b2 and b, putting said device in the position Fig. l, it substantially meeting the bends b3 and b5, and in this position, which is the operative position of the device c, it closes the open loop snugly about the neck of the can.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A can-holder consisting of one piece of wire bent to form a loop to embrace the body of the can, a loop to embrace the neck of the can and means to cause the loop embracing the neck of the can to contract and tit said neck snugly.

2. A can-holder consisting of wire bent and joined to present a closed loop to embrace the body of a can, and an open loop to surround the neck of the can, and a device to contract the open loop surrounding the neck of the can to embrace and hold said neck and retain the holder in position on the body of the can.

3. A can-holder consisting of a wire bent to constitute a holder presenting at one end a closed loop to embrace the body of the can, and at the other end an open loop to surround theneck of the can, portions of said wire connecting said open and closed loops, and a movable device embracing the wire between the open and the closed loop and slidable on said portions toward the open loop to cause it to embrace the neck of a can closely.

4. The combination with a can having abody In testimony whereof I have signed myl name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILFRED H. GODDARD.

Witnesses: A l

GEO. W. GREGORY, EDITH M. STODDARD. 

